Why does that even happen?
The kernel is cleaning the corpses out of the basement freezer chest before the power goes out and stinks up the place.
Leave the poor kernel out of it, it has nothing to do with this. It’s Lennart, not Linus.
Unmounting CIFS , 1:30 timeout ! I just wannatgo to bed…
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I’ve been living that for years
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I prefer holding the power button for 5 seconds
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has the added benefit of a satisfying POP! and turning all the lights off too…
ready for bed!
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It’s very energizing too
Yeah, I know. It’s just Sunday morning and I’m feeling cheeky.

The culprit often filesystem sync for me…
Yes. Mounted network drives.
I think a lot of the shutdown hang problems went away when i switched to systemd automount
It isn’t those for me tho. It’s just BTRFS that like to hang. Auto scrub going? Hang. Auto balance? Hang. Time shift/urbackup doing back up things? Let’s hang!
Meh, init 6, you coward
kill -9 1
Still faster than Windows








